David is a writer of poetry and essays, and an editor and anthologist with many books to his name. His award-winning verse novel, “Ludlow,” was featured on the “PBS News Hour,” and he has also published a memoir, “News from the Village.” Other books include a collection of essays, “Two Minds of a Western Poet,” and “The Scarlet Libretto,” words for Lori Laitman’s opera based on the Hawthorne classic. “After Life,” his opera with composer Tom Cipullo, was produced in both Seattle and San Francisco in 2015, and Washington, D.C. in 2016. A recording is available from Naxos. He is an advisory editor for The Hudson Review and The Sewanee Review. His poems and essays appear in a variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The New Republic, and Poetry, as well as various anthologies and public radio outlets and “Best American Poetry 2012.” He has given many poetry readings around the country and his work is featured in the CD and book for the National Endowment for the Arts program, “Poetry Out Loud.” David has won the Thatcher Hoffman Smith Creativity in Motion Prize from the University of Oklahoma for a proposal to turn “Ludlow” into an opera libretto. “Vedem,” an oratorio he wrote with Laitman, premiered in Seattle in May 2010 and is available from Naxos. Act One of the “Ludlow” opera has now been workshopped by the University of Colorado Music Department. His most recent books are “Sea Salt: Poems of a Decade, 2004-2014” and “Davey McGravy: Tales for Children and Adult Children.” He served as poet laureate of Colorado from 2010 to 2014.